Slate Funding 2020: Wake me; Everything That’s Wrong With You; Rainy Summer

Title: Wake me
Genre: Fiction feature film
Director: Marko Šantić
Scriptwriters: Marko Šantić, Goran Vojnović in Sara Hribar
Producer: Vertigo
Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia

Story: Rok awakes in the hospital where he ended up unconscious due to an unfortunate incident. He has no memory of his girlfriend, his job, nor the apartment he lives in. All he remembers is his hometown and the home he shared with his mother and younger brother. Shortly after returning to his neighbourhood Rok notices that he’s no longer welcome. His family and acquaintances behave differently toward him. Slowly, he manages to piece together a mosaic of memories, realizing how problematic his past was. His younger brother is following the same path. For the first time in his life, Rok accepts responsibility; he wants to put an end to the bad family history and prevent it from repeating itself.

Title: Everything That’s Wrong With You
Genre: Feature fiction
Director: Urša Menart
Scriptwriter: Urša Menart
Producer: Vertigo
Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Serbia

Story: Maruša connects with Alja online, who lives and works abroad as a nurse. They bond immediately. When Alja falls ill, Maruša travels from Slovenia to the Netherlands to help her new friend, only to discover that not everything is as it seems.

Title: Rainy Summer
Director: Damjan Kozole
Scriptwriters: Damjan Kozole in Ognjen Sviličić
Producer: Vertigo
Country of co-production: Slovenia, Serbia

Slate Funding 2020: Wake me; Everything That’s Wrong With You; Rainy Summer

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Title: Wake me Genre: Fiction feature film Director: Marko Šantić Scriptwriters: Marko Šantić, Goran Vojnović in Sara Hribar Producer: Vertigo Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia

Story: Rok awakes in the hospital where he ended up unconscious due to an unfortunate incident. He has no memory of his girlfriend, his job, nor the apartment he lives in. All he remembers is his hometown and the home he shared with his mother and younger brother. Shortly after returning to his neighbourhood Rok notices that he's no longer welcome. His family and acquaintances behave differently toward him. Slowly, he manages to piece together a mosaic of memories, realizing how problematic his past was. His younger brother is following the same path. For the first time in his life, Rok accepts responsibility; he wants to put an end to the bad family history and prevent it from repeating itself.

Title: Everything That’s Wrong With You Genre: Feature fiction Director: Urša Menart Scriptwriter: Urša Menart Producer: Vertigo Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Serbia

Title: Rainy Summer Director: Damjan Kozole Scriptwriters: Damjan Kozole in Ognjen Sviličić Producer: Vertigo Country of co-production: Slovenia, Serbia

Funded projects

CAFÈ: Redefining Historic Cafés as European Cultural Heritage

ArtElevate – Fostering inclusive cultural expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3

PAGE: a Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT - participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)